Best rock lyric ever?

[Danny O Danny]

She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake.
-Elvis Costello

 

[Danny O Danny]

If you listen to fools, the mob rules.
-Ronnie James Dio

 

[Danny O Danny]

Wet bus stop, she's waiting, his car is warm and dry.
-Sting

 

[Danny O Danny]

I called up my friend LeRoy on the phone,
I said, "Buddy, I'm afraid to be alone."
-Warren Zevon

 

[nomaj]

She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went.

Robert Palmer

 

[underwhelmist]

If I hadn't seen such riches, I could live with being poor.

James, Sit Down.

 

[Tom Bomb]

I got some money in my pocket.
I got the car keys in my hand.
I got myself a couple of tickets,
To see a rock 'n' roll band.

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[klaatu]

"Well, the night I was born
Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red"

Jimi Hendrix

 

[Nebadon2000]

I had to edit somewhat but feel free to delete but it is a lyric I will never forget

"I'm a bad motherf'er, don't you know
And I'll crawl over fifty good vagina's just to get one fat boy's a'hole"
Said Stagger Lee

Nick Cave & The Bad Seed's

 

[Jeff K]

Another favorite from John Prine:

"...Well we'd go out on Saturday evenin'
To the drive-in on Route 41
It was there I first suspected
She was doin' what she'd already done..."

From "The Great Compromise" - John Prine

 

[Tom Bomb]

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Aren't you aware of the gravity?

Don't need another satellite.

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[Tom Bomb]

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[Michedelic]

She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went.

Robert Palmer

Ain’t that the truth.

 

[foal30]

“This is the place where nothing changes
A land of red buses and blue blooded babies”

Matt Johnson , The The , Heartland

 

[The Owl]

"
I want to be there, on the far side of sin
I've been putting myself through hell, waiting for hell to begin
I got insurance
I was dominant for hours


Sweetheart Contract by Magazine

 

[klaatu]

"When you lay your life down in them grooves
You know you're bound to get scratched up sometime"

Fair Warning by Todd Rundgren

 

[Michael Stanley 2112]

"So much self-indulgance results in shuttered lives. Predominant complacency leads to beguiling lies."

 

[Tom Bomb]

You ain't seen na-na-nothing yet.​

 

[Aussie Player]

"Life, is what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans".
John Lennon

So true, few get it.

 

[Tom Bomb]

There's a lake in south Australia, little lake with lovely name
And the story woven round it, from the piccaninnies came
Every night the native mothers croon this lovely lullaby,
Croon across the moonlit waters, to the star up in the sky

Carra Barra Wirra Canna, little star upon the lake
Guide me through the hours of darkness, keep me safely till I wake

Piccaninnies' heads are nodding, drowsy crooning fills the air.
Little eyes at last are closing, And the boat of dreams is there.
Guide my boat across the waters, Cross the waters still and deep,
Light me with your little candle, safely to the land of sleep

Carra Barra Wirra Canna, little star upon the lake
Guide me through the hours of darkness, keep me safely till I wake.

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